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Progressive Era Revi
Progressive Era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Origins of Progressivism | Taylorism, Social Gospel Movement and Muckrakers |
| What is Taylorism? | influenced many progressives, many felt that the efficiency that Taylor proposed for American industry could be installed in American governments |
| What was the Social Gospel Movement? | protestant efforts to aid the urban poor |
| Who were muckrakers? | exposed the corruption in political life and business life, impacted progressives |
| What did Upton Sinclair expose? | the meat packing industry |
| What did Ida Tarbell expose? | corruption in the Standard Oil Trust company |
| What did Lincoln Steffens expose? | Political corruption found in several American cities |
| What did Jacob Riis expose? | life in the slums |
| What was the progressives goal? | to improve life experienced by members of the lower class |
| What did the 17th Amendment do? | direct election of senators |
| What is the Initiative process? | citizens could propose a new law |
| What is the Referendum Process? | citizens could vote on a law |
| What is the recall process? | voters could remove an elected official from office |
| What is Direct Primary? | party members can vote for prospective canidates |
| What is the National Consumers League? | organization made up of women that wanted to protect both women and children in the work force |
| Settlement Houses | houses to help families |
| National American Woman Suffrage Association | created by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony |
| National Woman's Party | formed by Alice Paul |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | convinced many progressives to push for reforms of safety and health conditions in factories |
| Interstate Commerce Act | designed to further regulate interstate shippers |
| Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act | higlighted many of the problems the muckrakers discussed in their writings |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | Roosevelt put in place, to break up trusts |
| United States Forest Act | Roosevelt, acted to aid 200 million acres of land for national forests |
| sixteenth amendment | authorized the collection of federal income taxes |
| Ballinger Pinchot Affair | progressives labeled taft as being anti environment |
| 1912 election | taft = republican, roosevelt = progressive, wilson = democrat, wilson wins |
| Clayton Antitrust Act | continuation of sherman antitrust act, outlawed certain specific business practices, under wilson |
| Federal Trade Commission | uniformly enforced the antitrust laws |
| Federal Reserve System | designed to protect the american economy against further economic panics |
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